Life Work Poems

Sun up you're up time's up get up 
light on paste on brush up brush down brush all around
chin up shave up wash up wipe...

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A job defines bits of our life
Though it often causes us strife
We’ll find a new fit
If we choose to quit
And not slit our wrists with...

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The pages lay there empty,
The work unfinished,
Words left unsaid.
The books were not written, 
Life felt somehow incomplete.
With the feeling,
Time was coming to a quick close,
A...

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Weedy Eschatology

By Mark D. Stucky
The aging street mourns its faded splendor.
It remembers having red tulips and roses
in manicured, fertilized, emerald lawns
in community yards lining its...

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was thinking the other day
How things work in their own way
And decisions that you take 
May be different once you wake

For the world will turn...

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Mom’s Advice For Me
Miracle Man Tom Wright
Mothers Day 2024

Our mom was one of ten children. Her parents were farmers at a time when it required...

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We picked out the crops
     and then set the seeds;
We prayed for the rain
     that they would...

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Graduates
Miracle Man
5/5/2024

Your unknown future,
lies directly ahead.
From vacated nest,
to now earning your bread.

life is now a ladder,
you’ll start to climb.
Every chance to excel,
should become your showtime.

Your...

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Life can be hectic
Why not take a break from work
Embark on a trip....

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I've toiled in shadows, my hands calloused and worn,
Laboring silently, my spirit tattered and torn.
For the promise of pennies, I've bent my back low,
While the...

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Jack of All Trades
Miracle Man
5/3/2024

I once hired a man who never followed directions,
which required on my part, frequent inspections,
Though an old hand,
He didn’t understand,
So each...

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My friends said C’mon let’s go, let’s head on down to Mexico.’
We’ll drink up all their tequila and we’ll snort up all their blow.
My friends...

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Written 28 April 2024

“Genius begins great works. Labour alone finishes them.”
          Joseph Joubert

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Songs from a life, sounds like the blues,
microwave fries, pot noodle, stews,
dead on two legs, only half-nine,
saying yes, to the overtime,
this months rent and the...

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